This View of Life
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Political Scientist Joshua Goldstein and Psychologist Steven Pinker discuss arguments on the decline of violence.

Does society actually need psychopaths so it can function properly?

Rituals bind us, in modern societies and prehistoric tribes alike. But can our loyalties stretch to all of humankind?

Life finds a way, even when the path is poisonous, toxicologist says.

DARWIN isn’t required reading for public health officials, but he should be.

Almost every one of his concrete assertions about the contents of my article is demonstrably false.

Does fairness come standard with every newborn, or is it something that we (hopefully) develop as we mature?

Funding evolutionary pharmacology research.

While exchanging favors with others, humans tend to think in terms of tit-for-tat, an assumption easily extended to other animals.

A new study of seal locomotion suggests that true seals and sea lions evolved in parallel from separate aquatic ancestors.

An inspiring story about a day in the life of Charles Darwin.

Scholars continue to debate the Decline of Violence thesis. The latest critique is offered by Nassim Taleb; Pinker responds.